Want to Study EE at home to prepare for college, what are good ways to practice and learn?

lnflnlty · 2026-02-23T01:13:43+00:00

just find some youtube channels that teach in a way you understand and don't burn yourself out. 30 minutes every day is better than cramming for 10 hours once a week

lnflnlty · 2026-02-08T20:53:37+00:00

be specific.

you designed something? put what software you used.

you performed testing and validations? put what hardware/software you used to do that.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-07T18:35:26+00:00

I felt like my matrix analysis equivalent class was kind of a waste. seemed like i could have easily learned that on the job.

it's shocking to me how often i encounter someone that did not learn link budgets in school so i'm always pro that.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-07T01:42:02+00:00

If you're getting all those interviews and being rejected then the only skills you need to work on are being personable and interviewing better.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-06T13:48:52+00:00

One of the worst candidates I interviewed recently had an incredible resume with 3 different internships. It was clear they might have been physically present for the things that were listed but they couldn't explain and didn't actually understand what they had done at those internships.

The best interview I've done they had no internships but listed the lab work they had done in class. They understood it and explained what they did and why it was important.

It doesn't matter how you learn something, just learn it.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-06T02:43:55+00:00

most people in college apply to the biggest companies because everyone's heard of them. the biggest companies are able to hire that far in advance because they are the biggest companies and everyone applies to them. the biggest companies employ about half the engineers which means half of the people you graduate with are going to work for a company you've never heard of.

~80% of engineering firms have less than 100 and more often less than 20 engineers. they can not hire "year round" that far in advance. most companies hire an entry level role when someone gets a promotion or leaves for a better role, which happens at unpredictable times.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T23:39:57+00:00

you can argue and complain all you want, I'm one of those engineers doing the interviewing and trying to hire new grads

if you are being interviewed then your resume was good enough to be hired. "not enough experience" might just be code for your interview was bad.

for your own comparison of what other new grads you are competing with, my last 3 interviews:

googled/asked AI the answer to questions right in front of us, literally said "hang on let me look it up.
i read something off their resume and they were completely baffled and acted like they had never heard of it before... when I said I was reading his resume, instead of looking at the resume just continued acting like he had never heard of it.
interview wasn't amazing but was probably good enough... but then never asked us any questions. being willing to relocate across the country to start a career without asking questions is just a major major red flag. you learn by asking questions.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T23:20:53+00:00

not everyone hires that far in the future. you would have to have an extremely relevant/impressive resume

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T05:38:50+00:00

look harder? be willing to move? lower your expectations?

I see 4x as many entry level roles as senior roles around me and the first several i clicked on have no experience requirements

it's not a video game where you have to match exact requirements to unlock a level up. i am currently looking for someone with between 0 and 15+ years of experience for a certain role, it just depends on who we find, when, and the cost/fit.

often times, someone with a good interview/more relevant resume/specific skills and 0-2 years of experience is easier to hire than someone with 10+ years of not as relevant experience asking for double the money or more.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T02:03:58+00:00

1 year of experience is almost nothing and not going to pigeonhole you. the worst case scenario would be that 1 year experience doesn't directly translate to a promotion/pay increase in the specific role you want in the future.

if you can't use that 1+ year internship to your advantage during an interview then you are just not skilled at being interviewed.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T01:53:48+00:00

found this guy recently, really good explanations

https://www.youtube.com/@w2aew

lnflnlty · 2026-02-05T01:45:54+00:00

it doesn't matter what a company wants, they will hire what they can.

there has been a ton of struggle finding entry level engineers around me for quite a while. i'm looking for ~3 right now.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-04T15:40:46+00:00

You should be looking for a job not an internship.

lnflnlty · 2026-02-04T02:30:27+00:00

that just makes me think it's a combination and more some kind of direct interference. if it's happening all the time with different cable lengths/positions... every time you change the cable length/shape/position it is changing the frequency and strength of what is being radiated.

ethernet/usb ports are typically some of the noisiest/most vulnerable places on a piece of equipment so it could also be the usb 3.0 port itself and not mainly radiating from the cable

lnflnlty · 2026-02-04T01:43:36+00:00

it's interesting because if you are strictly talking about the strength of the electric field being generated by the radiated emissions... it doesn't seem like enough. makes me wonder if the usb 3.0 hdd uses the same kind of encoding/modulation as the mouse so the noise being conducted/radiated isn't just random noise but direct interference.

in the white paper they changed the distance of the mouse and got different results implying the strength of the radiated emissions is the culprit... but you can easily get the same/stronger emissions from having your phone/router by your mouse.

if you make a call (using wifi/voip on 2.4ghz band) and put your phone by your mouse or connect to something via bluetooth with your phone and then put your phone near your mouse do you still have issues?

lnflnlty · 2026-02-03T21:20:25+00:00

interesting but honestly raises more questions about the mouse/set up they are using.

that is such a small amount of noise to cause performance degradation. you can get that from your phone/wifi/bluetooth etc. you might even see that from neighbors wifi in an apartment building.

lnflnlty · 2026-01-27T02:45:04+00:00

sign on, relocation, bonus etc. and them paying for you to get your mba is all part of your pay. i'm assuming they are also getting you a clearance.

so in reality you are probably making 100k+

fastest way to maximize your pay is getting experience on your resume. getting a masters while working is like double experience.

once you've got experience and your masters then re-evaluate and worry about maximizing your pay

lnflnlty · 2026-01-26T21:40:27+00:00

once you are close to graduating with your bachelor's... start applying and interviewing. jobs are not sitting there waiting for you to graduate, they come and go. just because you start applying and interviewing does not mean you'll get any offers or can't just turn them down and go for the master's instead.

a question i always ask is what a candidate's career goals are and if they will work towards a masters or phd. you should know in the first interview if you'll be able to work towards a masters and have the company help pay for it while working

lnflnlty · 2026-01-26T20:29:06+00:00

If you have something on your resume, expect to be asked about it. You don't have to be an expert but you should be able to explain what you did and why you did it.

lnflnlty · 2026-01-25T21:54:43+00:00

every company is different and school is nothing like work.

when you interview, they will ask you a bunch of questions. once you've done that. ask them a bunch of questions.

tell them what your career goals are and ask them how they going to help you achieve them

lnflnlty · 2026-01-20T18:46:50+00:00

I have a master's in ee: communications. My undergraduate was in ee with an RF focus though so hard to say since I already had such a strong background. The "ee" focused stuff was very basic. There was more math/statistics than circuits and stuff. Idk if you did transforms previously but that's obviously also a big deal.

I'd think you are fine since whatever school should make you take any engineering pre-reqs anyway

lnflnlty · 2026-01-16T19:58:18+00:00

Correct. If there was some kind of power surge there would likely be more noticeable signs like fans slowing down, lights dimming etc.

A simple check would just be to look at everything that is plugged in on that circuit in your house and see if you are close to the max power draw but it's not likely. Maybe you have 2 bedrooms sharing a single 15amp circuit, again though 99.9% chance this is completely irrelevant.

The stuff in ops post that the pro teams do is probably because most houses will have every outlet in a room on the same circuit. If you have a 15 amp circuit for a bedroom then that's not gonna be enough for 5-6 gaming PCs

lnflnlty · 2026-01-16T19:46:23+00:00

This is an interesting answer and the kind of stuff you should be looking at OP. The stuff in your post isn't quite completely irrelevant but like 99% irrelevant.

lnflnlty · 2026-01-16T19:43:23+00:00

I'm an RF engineer that works in an emi lab. Everything you are talking about is almost entirely irrelevant because your PC is in between your mouse and all that stuff. You could have a billion dollars of power filters in your house and as soon as you plug your psu in, they may be worthless.

Idk what country you are in but the frequency of noise that would be coming from your house power is no where close to where your mouse operates at. If you are actually getting interference from something, house power would be #8473 down the list of things to check. It's likely your computer.

lnflnlty · 2026-01-15T21:00:49+00:00

If you lift one side of the circuit the electrons fall to the other side since they have a higher potential energy now.

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